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Topic: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)

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Cincydawg

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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3388 on: July 04, 2025, 12:34:05 PM »
I can fit into a Miata, but the crossbar above the windshield is in my line of sight even with the seat reclined as far as possible.

I had a Chevy Sonic for a while and had plenty of room in it, my seat was not as far back as it would go.  Nobody could sit well behind me of course.  I rather liked that car, it was spunky, had the manual.  For me, having a manual enhances enjoyment and driver involvement a lot.
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3389 on: July 07, 2025, 09:48:29 AM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on July 03, 2025, 06:45:47 PM
Yep. You were in 8th grade. She was a senior.

Your lack of ability to start her car had little to do with your [lack of] chances :57:

I hear you, though... When I was a senior I had a crush on this woman at the karate school. I was 17. She was an adult (either 22 or 26? can't remember). Unsurprisingly, nothing ever materialized. But I probably didn't truly understand how abysmal my chances were until I got older.

I see this stuff now with my son when it comes to girls... How can someone so freakin' smart... Be so dumb?!?!

I never said I thought I had a chance.  I had a crush, I wasn't living in la-la land.

All I meant was, even when you know you have no chance, you still don't want to look like a dweeb who can't start a car in front of a cute girl.

That was actually the stint we lived in Georgia for a couple years....she was a true Georgia peach.  As weird twists of fate would have it, she wound up marrying a guy from where my family is from in Louisiana and moving there....where we moved back to after GA.  Not where I grew up in Baton Rouge, mind you....but nearer the Texas border where I finished growing up.  She kind of followed us there just a couple years after we left.  She's still there in (one of) my little hometown(s)(I also consider BR my home town).  She quit being so cute a couple decades and a couple kids ago, but she's a nice lady.  I like to think she's happy I eventually learned to drive a stick.  
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3390 on: July 11, 2025, 10:02:52 PM »
just like my 78


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« Reply #3391 on: July 12, 2025, 08:16:56 AM »
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3392 on: July 14, 2025, 09:20:35 AM »
1964 - 409 - seat belt delete

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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3393 on: July 14, 2025, 10:41:36 AM »
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3394 on: July 15, 2025, 10:47:12 AM »

1982.  0-60 in 8 seconds and 15 mpg

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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3395 on: July 15, 2025, 10:48:03 AM »
junk, both of them
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3396 on: July 15, 2025, 10:52:09 AM »
or paint them red
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3397 on: July 15, 2025, 10:58:16 AM »
It's easy to forget how awful cars were back then.  
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3398 on: July 15, 2025, 11:06:39 AM »
I remember that exact issue of Road & Track.  Or at least one exactly like it with the same comparison of the same two models, maybe a couple of years later.

My 1986 Chrysler Laser XT Turbo was 0-60 in 8.5 seconds.  Sporty! 
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3399 on: July 15, 2025, 12:04:33 PM »
1986 Chrysler Laser XT Turbo


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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3400 on: July 15, 2025, 12:05:31 PM »
I had the 1985 Chrysler LeBaron Turbo... 
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Re: Sporty Cars (and trucks too now)
« Reply #3401 on: July 15, 2025, 12:25:01 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on July 15, 2025, 12:04:33 PM
1986 Chrysler Laser XT Turbo



That's the car.  Mine was black, with black tinted windows and black leather interior.

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